Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany / France | 119 minutes | 1977 | English
The film based on the novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. It was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. Germany in the early 1930s. Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian émigré and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad. It begins with his seating himself in a chair to observe himself making love to his wife, Lydia, a zaftig empty-headed siren who is also sleeping with her cousin. Hermann is soon given to intemperate outbursts at his workers, other businessmen, and strangers. [more]
Writers: Vladimir Nabokov (novel), Tom Stoppard (screenplay)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch
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